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CYNTHIA L. HALLEN Department of Linguistics and English Language

4073 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602

(801) 422-2020, cynthia_hallen@byu.edu

EDUCATION

1991 Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona.

Dissertation: “Philology as Rhetoric in Emily Dickinson's Poems.”

1982 M.A. and Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, Brigham Young University,

Provo, Utah. Thesis: “LDS Language Teaching and Learning: Highlights from 1830 to 1982.”

1980 B.A. in English, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1997-pres Associate Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1991-1997 Assistant Professor of English Language, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1990-1991 Free-lance Linguist, Translation Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1989-1990 Teacher Supervisor, International Freshman Composition, English Department, University of Arizona.

1987-1990 Graduate Associate Teacher I, Freshman Composition, English Department, University of Arizona.

1986-1987 Summer Instructor, Center for English as a Second Language, University of Arizona.

1986 Graduate Assistant Teacher, Linguistics, Linguistics Department, University of Arizona.

1985-1986 Private Tutor, Linguistics and ESL.

1984-1985 Instructor, Title VII Bi-lingual CAI (Computer-Assisted Instruction) Program, South High School, Salt

Lake City, Utah.

1982-1984 Free-lance Lexicographer and Translator, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church

Translation Division, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1980-1982 Research Assistant for Arthur Henry King in Shakespeare Studies, Moral Studies Group, Brigham

Young University, Provo, Utah.

1978-1980 Spanish Teacher and Tutor, Missionary Training Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1976-1978 Missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, La Paz, Bolivia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aymará Studies, Comparative Historical Linguistics, Composition and Rhetoric,

Contrastive Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Early Modern English, Emily Dickinson Studies, Exegesis, Elizabeth

Goudge Studies, Family History, Dag Hammarskjöld Studies, History of the English Language, Arthur H. King

Studies, Lexicography, Native American Studies, Onomastics, Philology, Poetics, Sanctity of Life, Scandinavian

Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Stylistics, Translation, Noah Webster Studies.

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COURSES TAUGHT 1991-2018:

Introduction to Human Language

Grammar of English

Honors Advanced Writing Seminar

Honors Seminar on Emily Dickinson and the Philological Renaissance

Honors Unexpected Connections (team-taught)

Comparative Historical Linguistics

Teachings of the Living Prophets

History of the English Language

Introduction to English Linguistics

English Language Senior Seminar on Emily Dickinson and Noah Webster

Early Modern English

Religion Senior Seminar on the Language of the Scriptures

English Grammar for ESL Teachers

Introduction to Modern Linguistics

Language, Mind, World

Book of Mormon

Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Language and Literature

Graduate Seminar on Language and Literature

Writer’s Portfolio

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Website:

Renovated Edition of Noah Webster’s 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language. With Monte Shelley.

Wordcruncher website: http://wordcruncher.com/wordcruncher/default.htm. 2018.

Hallen, Cynthia, ed. Emily Dickinson Lexicon: Definitions, Etymologies, and Lexical Categories. In the Emily

Dickinson Archives (EDA). Houghton Library: Harvard University. Open Access online publication:

http://www.edickinson.org/, October 2013.

Hallen, Cynthia, ed. Emily Dickinson Lexicon. Website database: http://edl.byu.edu/index.php. 2007.

Hallen, Cynthia, ed. Renovated Online Edition of Noah Webster’s 1844 American Dictionary of the English

Language (ADEL). Website database: http://edl.byu.edu/webster. 2009.

Peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and tools published:

“Data Approaches to Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow.” In Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and

Methods for Nineteenth Century American Literature. Eds. Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain. Urbana: University

of Illinois Press, 2018, 71-81.

“Rhetoric for English Language Learners: Language Features of Five Latter-day Saint Devotional Talks.” Res

Rhetorica, ISSN 2392-3113, Rhetoric of religion edition 2 (2017), p. 44-60.

http://www.resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/206

“Mormon Metaphors of Restoration: Pathways to Identity and Understanding.” Science, Religion and Culture 3:2

(Dec 2016) 60-81. Co-authored with Dallin D. Oaks. http://smithandfranklin.com/current-issues/Mormon-

Metaphors-of-Restoration-Pathways-to-Identity-and-Understanding/9/1/319/html

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“Notes on ‘Emily Dickinson and the Textures of Mysticism, West and East’ by Barton Levi St. Armand, presented

at the 2007 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Kyoto, Japan, Sunday, August 5.” Ed. by Cynthia L.

Hallen. EDIS Bulletin. Emily Dickinson International Society (May 2015) 34.

“Barton Levi St. Armand: Portrait of the Scholar as an Artist.” EDIS Bulletin. Emily Dickinson International Society

(May 2015) 11-13.

“The Abolition of Chattel Abortion.” Life and Learning XXII: Proceedings of the 2012 UFL Conference. Ed. Fr.

Joseph W. Koterski. Bronx, New York: Fordham University. University Faculty for Life website, 2015, 1-17.

http://www.uffl.org/lifelearningxxii.html; http://www.uffl.org/pdfs/vol22/UFL_2012_Hallen.pdf

“Critical Response to Stefani Engelstein’s ‘Allure of Wholeness’: Traditional Marriage and the Beauty of Holiness.”

Critical Inquiry. University of Chicago. 41:2 (Jan 2015) 443-450; online publication (Dec 2014)

http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/HALLEN.pdf

“Database and Website for the Poems of Eliza R. Snow” (pilot). Provo: Utah. Brigham Young University. In

collaboration with Marny Parkin, Jill Derr, Karen Lynn Davidson, Monte Shelley, and ELANG/LING 495 senior

seminar students. December 2014; online publication https://erslexicon.wordpress.com/poems/

“Sacred Realism in the Novels of Elizabeth Goudge.” Literature and Belief. 32:1-2 (2012) 53-66.

“‘Grandame’s Story’: Emily Dickinson’s Direct Line Maternal Ancestors.” MASSOG: A Genealogical Magazine for

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Spring/Fall 2012.

“Defending the Sanctity Life.” Successful Marriages and Families: Proclamation Principles and Research

Perspectives. Ed. Alan J. Hawkins, David C. Dollahite, Thomas W. Draper. Provo, Utah: BYU Studies and School

of Family Life, 2011 (2012), pp. 290-299.

“Biblical Citations as a Stylistic Standard in Johnson’s and Webster’s Dictionaries” Lexis. Online journal. Issue 5

(April 2010) http://screcherche.univ-lyon3.fr/lexis/spip.php?article86. Co-authored with Tracy Spackman.

“1844 Addenda to Noah Webster’s 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL).” Dictionaries:

Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2009), 22-94. Co-authored with Dallin J. Bailey.

“Conversion Reflections.” Mormons and Evangelicals: Reasons for Faith. Ed. David Smith. Piscataway, New

Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2009.

“How to Kill Time: Emily Dickinson’s Narrative and the Indo-European Bard Tradition.” Poetics and Linguistics

Association (PALA 28) Online Conference Proceedings. http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2008/

“The ‘Malachi’ Given Name Pattern in a Swedish Village, 1500-1800.” Names 55:4 (December 2007) 397-406.

“Emily Dickinson’s Place Names.” Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 54:1 (March 2006) 5-21. [With undergraduate

Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) recipient Malina M. Nielson, equally co-authored 50%/50%].

“Beauty on the Mountains: Inspiration from the Book of Mormon for LDS Writers.” Journal of Book of Mormon

Studies 14:1 (2005) 104-107.

“The Ways of Possibility: Emily Dickinson and Dag Hammarskjöld.” Emily Dickinson International Society

Bulletin. 17:1 (May/June 2005) 4-7.

“Book of Mormon Merisms and Kennings.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 13:1-2 (2004 > Feb 2005) 152-157.

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Selected Proceedings of the Deseret Language and Linguistic Society: 1997 Symposium. Ed. Cynthia L. Hallen.

Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2004.

“How to Get Ophelia Out of Her Tree.” Brief Penguin Handbook. Faigley & Hendricks, eds. BYU-Idaho:

Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004, pp. 577-581. Submitted by invitation.

“The Language of the Scriptures.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12:2 (2003 > 2004) 93-95.

“What’s in a Word? Etymology!” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12:1 (2003) 105-107.

“Tender and Chaste and Delicate Feelings are Pleasing to the Lord.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 (2002 >

2003) 94-97.

“The T-Unit as a Measure of Syntactic Complexity in Emily Dickinson's Poems.” Emily Dickinson Journal 11:1

(2002) 91-103. Co-authored with Jennifer Shakespear.

“What’s in a Word? Righteous Judgment.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10:2 (2001) 62-63, actually appeared

in 2002.

“At Home in Language: Emily Dickinson’s Rhetorical Figures: Proceedings of the Third International Conference

of the EDIS.” Emily Dickinson at Home. Eds. Gudrun M. Grabher and Martina Antretter. Innsbruck, Austria:

Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001, 201-222.

“What’s in a Word? Introduction.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10:1 (2001) 70-71.

“The Sanctity and Importance of Human Life.” Strengthening Marriage and Family: Proclamation Principles and

Scholarship. Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, Deseret Book, 2000, pp. 206-14.

“Temple Attendance: Renewing Our Strength.” May Christ Lift Thee Up. SLC, UT: Deseret Book, 1999, 168-71.

“Censorship and Sensitivity” from the NCTE Council Chronicle, reprinted in Cultural Attractions / Cultural

Distraction. Eds. Libby Allison and Christine L. Blair. Longman/ Pearson, 2000.

“Redeeming the Desolate Woman.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. 7:1 (1998) 41-47.

“The Lord's Covenant of Kindness: Isaiah 54 and 3 Nephi 22.” Isaiah in the Book of Mormon. Ed. Donald W. Parry

and John W. Welch. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998, 313-49.

“Student Lexicographers: Pioneers for the Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Linguistics at Work: A Reader of

Applications. Ed. Dallin D. Oaks. Dallas, Texas: Harcourt, 1998, 536-552.

“Glossary.” Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications. Ed. Dallin D. Oaks. Dallas, Texas: Harcourt, 1998, 727-

745.

“Censorship and Sensitivity: Understanding Community Standards.” Council Chronicle, National Council of

Teachers of English 6:4 (April 1997) 16.

“Cognitive Circuits: The Circumference of Dickinson's Lexicon.” The Emily Dickinson Journal: Special Issue on

Translating Dickinson. 6:2 (1997) 76-83.

“Brave Columbus, Brave Columba: Emily Dickinson's Search for Land.” Emily Dickinson Journal 5:2 (1996) 169-

75. By invitation.

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“Student Lexicographers: Pioneers for the Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Dictionaries 15 (1994) 100-115. Submitted

by invitation.

“Translation and the Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” With Laura M. Harvey. Emily Dickinson Journal 2:2 (1993): 130-

146. Submitted by invitation.

“Philology and the Andean Highway.” DLLS Proceedings (1993).

“Lexical Music in Emily Dickinson's Poems.” Dickinson Studies (first half 1992): 24-39.

“Emily Dickinson and Noah's Ark.” DLLS Proceedings (Fall 1992): 69-79. Paper.

“Lexicography as Cohesion and Metaphor in the Poems of Emily Dickinson.” Work in Progress 2 (Fall and Spring,

1990-91): 130-38.

English 106 Student's Guide to Freshman Composition. University of Arizona: in-house publication of the

Composition Program for TESOL first year students and instructors, revised and edited by Cynthia L. Hallen, 1989.

“Letters to Anne Frank.” Notes Plus, National Council of Teachers of English (November 1987): 8-9, now available

on-line www.ncte.org/notesplus/subscribers_only/ideas_classroom

“Jenny and the Writing Process.” Underground, Disabled Student Services, University of Arizona, VI, 1 (September

1987): 13-14.

A Brighter Day. In-house publication of the Salt Lake City School District, student writings compiled and edited by

Cynthia L. Hallen at South High School, 1985.

Peer-reviewed creative works:

“RISEN!” Poetry Jam 2018. Judges: Dr. Jeff Tucker (English) and Dr. Jana Emmer (MOA). Provo, Utah: Museum

of Art, Brigham Young University, 22 March 2018, published online, https://moa.byu.edu/wp-

content/uploads/poetry-jam-finalists-2018-final.pdf.

“April Sonnetina.” Utah Life issue 1 (March/April 2018) p. 27.

“Christ in a Red Robe.” Brigham Young University, Museum of Art Poetry Jam, 6 April 2017,

http://moa.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/poetry-jam-2017-final-pdf-1.pdf .

“Recovering Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (May/June 2017) 27.

“Good Friday Psalm.” Utah Sings Poetry Anthology. Utah State Poetry Society with the Utah Arts Council and the

National Endowments for the Arts. 2015.

“I Walk in Beauty.” In Why I don’t Hide my Freckles Anymore: Perspectives on True Beauty. Eds. LaNae Valentine

and Lisa Tensmeyer Hansen. BYU Women’s Services and Resources. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2013, pp.

5-8. By invitation.

“Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day,” reprint. Adventures of the Soul: the Best Creative Nonfiction from BYU

Studies. Ed. Doris Dant. Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 2009, pp. 221-230.

“Untold Tales (Dickinson Fr 754).” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 20:2 (Nov/Dec 2008) p. 16.

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“Doors that Opened for Me.” Families Lost & Found. Lee Nelson and Marilyn Brown, eds. Springville, Utah: Cedar

Fort. 2005, pp. 48-54. Essay on linguistics applications to family history.

“Born to Skate.” Essay for After All. BYU Magazine (Winter 2002) 80.

“Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day.” BYU Studies 36:4 (1996-1997), 107-115.

“Christmas Fair.” Cameo: Latter-day Women in Profile 1:2 (Dec 1993) 33.

“Safe Place.” Poem. Arizona English Bulletin: Teachers as Writers. Arizona English Teachers Association (Summer

1992): 13.

“Melodious Sonnet.” Inscape. Brigham Young University. (Fall/Winter 1983): 39.

“Thankful Children.” Inscape. (Spring 1982): 18-23.

“La Cojita.” Inscape. (Spring 1982): 63.

“Family Name.” Literature and Belief. Brigham Young University (1981): 94.

“Italy and Idumea: Earthquake.” “Guardian of the Loaf.” Inscape. (Fall 1981): 39.

“Santiago de Huata: Seven Months Home.” Century 2. Brigham Young University (Fall 1979): 99.

Peer-reviewed books, articles, chapters, or creative works, accepted, submitted, or in progress:

Wo der Kirchturm von Sankt Peter ... Spuren Spellener Geschichte by Wilhelm Kolks. [By the Church Tower of

Saint Peter: Traces of Spellen’s History]. German to English translation. Book proposal, submitted to Wisconsin

Historical Society, November 2018.

Spellen im Wandeln der Geschichte by Hermann Hallen. [Spellen Through the Ages of History]. German to English

translation. Work in Progress, 2018.

Hallen, Cynthia L. and Julianne Grose. The DNA of Language, and the Language of DNA. Book-length, Work in

Progress.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Springfield Republican 1831 – 1860. Submitted to BYU

Studies, October 2018. Book-length, In review.

“Emily Dickinson’s Exposure to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Article submitted to BYU

Studies, Oct 2018. In review.

Emily Dickinson and the New Jerusalem: Faith, Family, and Philology. Book proposal. To be re-submitted.

“Answering Johann Wondra’s 1980 Call for Beauty.” In revision.

“Gilbert and the Afterlife: an Analysis of Seven Dickinson Elegies.” Co-authored with Jessie Rose. To be revised

for journal submission.

“The Reconstructed Semantic Roots of Noah Webster and Calvert Watkins.” co-authored with Dallin Bailey. To be

revised and submitted for publication.

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“‘Brave names’: Emily Dickinson=s Person Names.@ Article in progress for publication submission to the peer-

reviewed journal Names.

AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS

2018 Alcuin Fellowship. Honors Program. Brigham Young University, 2018-2020.

2015 Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2015, BYU College of Humanities.

2010 Deseret Dramatic Script Award Recognition and Presentation for “Galilee Psalms.” Music and

Fine Arts Committee, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

2009 Faculty Development Leave, Winter 2009, BYU College of Humanities.

2008 Religious Studies Center funding award, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

2007 Albert J. Colton Fellowship for Projects of National or International Scope, Utah Humanities

Council.

2005 International Conference Travel Grant, PALA Conference, Huddersfield, England. David O.

Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

2005 Faculty Development Leave, Winter 2005, BYU College of Humanities.

2004 Faculty Pin and Certificate, Student Honor Association, Winter semester, Brigham Young

University.

2003-pres Faculty Advisor for the Graduate Student Association, Department of Linguistics and English

Language.

2002-2003 Service Learning University Sub-Committee.

2001-2011 Associate Editor, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University.

2001-2002 Graduate Coordinator, Linguistics Department, Brigham Young University.

2001 “Environments for Mentoring” faculty grant recipient, Office of Research and Creative Arts,

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1998 1998 Linguistics Teacher of the Year Award, BYU Student Alumni Association.

1997 1997 Linguistics Teacher of the Year Award, BYU Student Alumni Association.

1996 Third Prize, BYU Studies Personal Essay Contest. Brigham Young University. Essay “Tomorrow

Will Be My Dancing Day.”

1996 Second Prize, “Poetry, Non-Student Division” of the Literature and Belief Christian Values

contest. Brigham Young University. Poem “Effigy.”

1992 Second Prize, “Teachers as Writers Contest.” Arizona English Teachers Association. Poem “Safe

Place.”

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1992 BYU English Department Support Funds for computer scanning of Dickinson's letters. College of

Humanities Support Funds for electroprint and microfilm copies of Webster's 1844 dictionary.

1992-96 Spring/summer 9% research grant and support funds. College of Humanities, Brigham Young

University.

1985-1986 Tuition Waiver Scholarship. Linguistics Department, University of Arizona, Tucson.

May 1982 3rd Place, Christian Values Writing Contest. Essay, Center for Christian Values in Literature,

Brigham Young University, “Plain Style and Posturing.”

Fall 1981 1st Place, Christian Values Writing Contest, Center for Christian Values in Literature, Brigham

Young University. Student Poetry, “Family Name (Revelation 2:17).”

Mar 1981 2nd Place, 1980-81 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Poetry Contest. BYU College of Humanities. “In the

Wilderness.”

Fall 1980 Special Award, National College Poetry Contest. “Spring Floods–Arizona 1978.”

Mar 1980 3rd Place, Mormon Festival of Arts Poetry Contest. Brigham Young University. “Aunt Elizabeth,”

“Mayola Moore,” “Family Name.”

Mar 1979 1st Place, Mormon Festival of Arts Poetry Contest. Brigham Young University. “Santiago de

Huata–Seven Months Home.”

1978-1979 Dougherty Foundation Scholarship. Phoenix, Arizona.

June 1973 Challenge/Discovery Summer Scholarship. Prescott College and Valley National Bank, Phoenix,

Arizona

Scholarly Research for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

“Exegesis of 3 Nephi.” Scripture Translation Guides. Salt Lake City: LDS Translation Department, 1995.

“Definition of OF.” Lexicon of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price. Salt Lake City:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986.

Reviews, Reports, Responses, Translations:

Review of the manuscript, “Double-click Rhetoric: Rhetorical Strategies of Communication in the Digital Context,”

the peer-reviewed international journal Res Rhetorica. 16 January 2019.

Review of “The Repetitive Rhetoric of Miscavige’s Battle: A Preliminary Look at the Church of Scientology” for

the peer-reviewed international journal Res Rhetorica. 29 March 2017.

Evening Star (Avondster). Translated by Geert Nijland with Ans Bouter, Cynthia Hallen, and Maria Kamphuis.

Soest, the Netherlands: Uitgeverij Boekscout, 2017, 55 pages.

Review of “Min flod flyter mot dig”: Sextio dikter av Emily Dickinson [My River Flows to Thee: Sixty Poems of

Emily Dickinson]. Trans. Ann-Marie Vinde. Stockholm: Bokverket, 2010, 173 pages. EDIS Bulletin. Emily

Dickinson International Society (May/June 2015) 32-33.

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Review of In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-

American Anxiety of Discovery by Annette Kolodny (Duke University Press. 2012, 426 pages). Scandinavian

Studies. 85:1 (Spring 2013) 126-131. By invitation.

Review of Old Norse Women’s Poetry: The Voices of Female Skalds by Sandra Ballif Straubhaar. Cambridge, UK:

D. S. Brewer. (2011. 145 pp.) Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 66:1 (Spring 2012) online.

Invited by Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Reported for 2013.

“Faith and Intelligence: a Dialogue with Deity.” Ed. Dan Peterson. Mormon Scholars Testify. 2009.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/category/testimonies

Review of Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief by Robert Lundin (2nd edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William

B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004, 1-318). Literature and Belief 26:2 (Fall 2007) 155-158. Center for

Christian Values in Literature, Brigham Young University.

“Language Professions Defined.” SCHWA: Linguistic Perspectives on the English Language. 1:1 (2006), 5-7.

Review of Nimble Believing by James McIntosh. Emily Dickinson Journal 10:2 (2001) 75-78.

“Feasting Upon the Works: A Tribute to John L. Sorenson.” Review of Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World:

Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson, in FARMS Review of Books 12:2 (2000) 181-184.

“Truth, Trees, and Trust: A Philological Reading of Dickinson's Poem 780.” TRANSLIT newsletter, (Nov 1996).

“Review of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language.” Emily Dickinson International

Society Bulletin. 8:1 (May/June 1996) 12-13.

“Expanded review of Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning by Dorothy Huff Oberhaus.” Literature

and Belief. 18 (1995) 183-188.

“Review of Writing for Academic Publication by Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley.” NADS: Newsletter of the

American Dialect Society. 28:2 (May 1996) 1-3.

“Report on `Interdisciplinary Approaches to Dickinson', a Session of the EDIS Innsbruck Conference.” Emily

Dickinson International Society Bulletin 7:2 (Nov/Dec 1995) 6-7.

“Review of Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning by Dorothy Huff Oberhaus.” Emily Dickinson

International Society Bulletin. 7:1 (May/June 1995) 16-17.

“Utah Chapter Formed.” Reported with Kasi Morris. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 6:2 (Nov/Dec

1994) 15. Submitted by invitation.

“Jirohattan.” BYU Children's Book Review. Brigham Young University (Jan/Feb 1994): 25-26.

“Book Review of Jirohattan.” Hawaii English Journal. Hawaii Council of Teachers of English (Fall 1993): 31-32.

Submitted by invitation.

“How to Get Ophelia Out of Her Tree.” The Ophelia Syndrome. BYU General and Honors Education, June 1993.

Submitted by invitation.

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Refereed conference papers and presentations:

International

2016 “Emily Dickinson’s Language and Lexicon.” Top of the Mind with Julie Rose. Radio interview with

Cynthia Hallen, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at BYU. February 24. Audio published

online at http://www.byuradio.org/episode/209cf9ec-a755-494a-b50f-

59c486046ead?playhead=2138&autoplay=true.

2015 “Evolution of Language/Grammar.” Top of the Mind with Julie Rose. Radio Interview with guests: Dr. Vyv

Evans, Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University and author of Language of the Mind; Cynthia Hallen,

Professor of English Language and Linguistics at BYU. February 20. Audio published online at

http://www.byuradio.org/episode/18000cd3-fdbf-4bef-8cd0-645a8482da80?playhead=3048&autoplay=true

2014 “Emily E. Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow.” Symposium on Emily Dickinson and Other New England

Writers. EDIS Annual Meeting. Amherst, Massachusetts. August.

2012 Hel-Lex 3 Conference: New Approaches in English Historical Lexis. Helsinki, Finland. March 7-10. “Noah

Webster’s Etymologies and Calvert Watkins’ Indo-European Roots,” 9 March 2012.

2010 Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Oxford, England. August 6-8. “The Mitochondrial

Muse: Emily Dickinson’s Maternal Ancestors.”

2009 Emily Dickinson Translation Colloquium. Stockholm, Sweden. Meeting with English Department faculty

at Stockholm University. June 3.

2008 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA 28) conference. Sheffield, England. July 23-26. “How to Kill

Time: Emily Dickinson’s Narrative and the Indo-European Bard Tradition.”

2007 Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Kyoto, Japan. August 3-5. “Fabrics of Faith in Emily

Dickinson’s Proper Names.” August 3.

2005 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA 25) conference. Huddersfield, England. July 18-21. “‘Brave

names’: Emily Dickinson=s Person Names.@ July 20.

2005 Nordic Association of American Studies. Växjö, Sweden. May 26-29. “The Ways of Possibility: Emily

Dickinson and Dag Hammarskjöld.” May 27.

2003 International Comparative Historical Linguistics conference. Copenhagen, Denmark. August 11-15. “‘Croft

of Light’: Swedish Given Names in Ljustorps Parish 1500-1800.”

2001 Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Trondheim University, Trondheim, Norway, August 3-

5. “The T-Unit as a Measure of Syntactic Complexity in Emily Dickinson's Poems.” August 3.

1999 Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts,

August 13-15. “At Home in Language: Emily Dickinson's Rhetorical Figures.” August 14.

1996 Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting. Amherst, MA, June 23. Report on home page,

emweb discussion list, and international bibliography with Lynne Sharp of the Emily Dickinson Journal.

1995 International Conference on Teaching Shakespeare through Performance. National Council of Teachers of

English. Louisville, Kentucky, March 1. “The Whole Performer: Experiencing Shakespeare at BYU

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Through Language, Performance, and Video” with Nancy Christiansen, Robert Nelson, Dennis Packard,

David Warner, Bruce Young.

1995 Cognitive Approaches to Poetry and Translation seminar. TRANSLIT Group. Innsbruck University,

Innsbruck, Austria, August 6. “Another Cognitive Tool: The Emily Dickinson Lexicon Project.” By

invitation.

1995 Emily Dickinson International Society conference. Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria, August 4-5.

“Brave Columbus, Brave Columba: Emily Dickinson's Search for Land.”

1992 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference. Washington, D.C., October 22-24. “Translation and the

Emily Dickinson Lexicon,” October 23.

National

2015 “Gilbert and the Afterlife: An Analysis of Seven Dickinson Elegies.” Co-presenter with Jessie Rose.

American Literature Association (ALA) conference, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21.

2013 Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-8) Conference. September 12-14. Session

Moderator, September 14.

2012 University Faculty for Life conference. “The Abolition of Chattel Abortion.” June 3. Brigham Young

University, Provo, Utah.

2006 American Name Society Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Annual

Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 5-8. “Swedish Personal Names in Ljustorps Parish, 1500-

1800. Jan 5.

1999 Dictionary Society of North America Conference. Berkeley, California, May 28-29. “The Worlds of

Shakespeare: A Twentieth Century Lexical Approach to Literature.” Dictionary Society of North America.

University of California at Berkeley, May 27-29. The Worlds of Shakespeare. May 28.

1997 “Taboo or Totalitarianism? A Defense of Censorship.” National Council of Teachers of English annual

conference, Language as Moral Action. Detroit, Michigan, November.

1997 Panel discussion, “Whatever Happened to Language and Learning Across the Curriculum?” LALAC

Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English annual conference, Language as Moral Action.

Detroit, Michigan, November 1997.

1997 “Translating Definition: A Lexical Approach to Dickinson.” Midwest Modern Language Association

conference. Chicago, November.

1994 National Council of Teachers of English. Orlando, Florida, November 19. Special Interest Group “Learning

Through Language: The Political Milieu.”

1993 Dictionary Society of North America Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada, May 24-26. “Undergraduate

Lexicographers: Pioneers for the Emily Dickinson Lexicon,” paper, May 26.

1988 Second Annual Graduate Student Conference on English Studies. College Composition, and

Communication. Milwaukee, October 13-15. “Philology in Reading and Composition.”

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Regional

2019 “Unexpected Connections: Bios and Logos.” Digital Humanities Utah 4 (DHU4) Conference. Ogden, Utah,

Weber State University, Feb 1.

2017 “Religious Rhetoric for English Language Learners.” ITESOL Conference, Oct 13-14. Aspen Grove, Utah.

13 Oct 2017.

2017 “Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow: Data, Dictionaries, Discoveries.” Digital Humanities Utah 2 (DHU2)

Conference. Salt Lake City, University of Utah. Feb 10-11.

2016 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct 6-8. “Emily

Dickinson, the Springfield Republican, and the Salt Lake Saints.” 7 Oct 2016.

2015 “Answering Johann Wondra’s 1980 Call for Beauty.” Beauty and Belief Symposium. Center for Christian

Values in Literature. Brigham Young University, Provo, November 5-6. Paper presented Nov 6.

2013 Deseret Dramatic Script Memorial and Presentation for “Cologne Psalm” by Cynthia L. Hallen with music

by the late Don Wilson. Joseph Smith Memorial Building Auditorium, Salt Lake City, 16 February, 2013.

2011 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Scottsdale, Arizona. Oct 5-8. “Noah

Webster’s Etymologies and Calvert Watkins’ Indo-European Roots.” 6 Oct 2011.

2011 Deseret Dramatic Script Award Recognition and Presentation for “Galilee Psalms.” Joseph Smith

Memorial Building Auditorium, Salt Lake City, 4 February, 2011.

2010 “Sacred Realism in the Novels of Elizabeth Goudge.” Literature and the Sacred Symposium. Brigham

Young University, Provo, Utah, 14 October 2010.

2009 “Great Works: Emily Dickinson.” Thinking Aloud interview with Marcus Smith on 19 November and radio

broadcast on 7 December 2009.

2009 “Abolish Chattel Abortion.” Family Law Student Association conference, March.

2008 “EDL.BYU.EDU: The Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Orem Public Library. Orem, Utah, May 6.

2008 “EDL.BYU.EDU: The Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Harold B. Lee Library. Brigham Young University,

Provo, Utah, March 26.

2008 “EDL.BYU.EDU: The Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Delta City Library. Delta, Utah, March 19.

2008 “EDL.BYU.EDU: The Emily Dickinson Lexicon.” Pleasant Grove City Library. Pleasant Grove, Utah,

March 13.

2008 “Divine Parody: Sensitive Content and the Three Degrees of Allegory.” Association for Momon Letters.

Provo, Utah. March 8, 2008.

2006 Rocky Mountain European Studies Consortium Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

October 6-7. “Hearts of the Children”: European Naming Pattern in a Swedish Village, 1500–1800.”

2005 Association for Mormon Literature Conference. Salt Lake City Library. March 5. Plenary Speaker:

“Beautiful Upon the Mountains: The Book of Mormon’s Handbook for Writers.”

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2003 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Missoula, Montana. Oct 9-11. “Academic

Mentoring.” Panel presentation with undergraduate teaching assistant, R’el Johnston.

2003 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. March

18-19 “Syntactic Complexity in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29.”

2003 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, March 7.

“‘Split the Lark’: Five Non-Tabloid Ways to Read Emily Dickinson.”

2002 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Scottsdale, Arizona. Oct 10-12. “Emily

Dickinson’s Onomastics.” Paper presented, Oct 11.

2002 BYU Campus Education Week. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Three presentations: “Tender,

Chaste, and Delicate Feelings”; “Modesty, Decency, Soberness”; “Meekness, Humility, Reverence” for 3-

day series entitled “Be Still, My Soul.” August 21-23.

2001 “Mentoring Emily Dickinson.” With Ann Ipson, R.A. University Conference Faculty Session, Brigham

Young University, August 2001.

2000 BYU Campus Education Week. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Paper on “Etymology: We Are

Doing It!” for The Language of Our Fathers. August 16.

1997 “`The Tune that Totters in the Leaves': Defining Belief in Dickinson.” Literature and Belief conference on

Metaphysical Poetry. Brigham Young University. October.

1997 Program Chair, Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium, BYU. Arranged program and keynote

speakers on cognitive linguistics, Donald and Margaret Freeman, February, 1997.

1996 Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference. Park City, Utah, May 18. “The

Whole Performer: Experiencing Shakespeare at BYU Through Language, Performance, and Video” with

Nancy Christiansen, Robert Nelson, Dennis Packard, David Warner, Bruce Young. By invitation.

1996 Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium. With student Mel Wilson. “WebPlay: Emily Dickinson and

Webster’s Diction.” Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

1995 Isaiah in the Book of Mormon seminar. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, May 20. “3 Nephi 22:

The Lord's Covenant of Kindness.” By invitation.

1995 “Philological Criticism: A Timeless Way of Languaging.” First annual Literature and Belief conference.

College of Humanities. Brigham Young University. March 31.

1994 Southwest Regional Conference for Teachers of English/Language Arts. Boulder, CO, October 28.

“Censorship and Sensitivity: Understanding Community Standards.”

1994 Utah Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Letters. Ogden, Utah, May 13. “Censorship and Sensitivity:

Establishing a Moral Discourse.”

1993 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 1-2.

“Defining a Philological Criticism,” April 2.

1992 Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, February 20.

“Emily Dickinson and Noah's Ark.”

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1991 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Arizona State University, Tempe, October 18. “On the

Ropes: Collaborative Learning as a Frame of Mind.”

1991 New Directions in Criticism Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, Spring. “Lexicography as

Cohesion and Metaphor in the Poems of Emily Dickinson.”

1990 Graduate Teacher Orientation Program. University of Arizona, Tucson, August 14. “Teaching Second

Language Composition: Expression through Philology and Figures.”

1990 TESOL Rocky Mountain Regional VII. Phoenix, January 25-27. “Small is Meaningful: English Studies as

if Words and People Mattered.”

1989 AZ-TESOL 7th Annual ESL Mini-Conference. Tucson, October 1989. “Space Stations in the Universe of

Discourse.”

1989 First Annual Graduate Student Colloquium on Languages and Literatures. University of Arizona, Tucson,

April 1. “Philology in Languages and Literature.”

1988 The Sixth Rocky Mountain TESOL Convention. Salt Lake City, November 3-5. “Philology and Pedagogy:

Teaching Indo-European Roots as a Second Language.”

1988 English Department Work in Progress. Tucson, September 26. “Philology in Reading and Composition.”

1988 University of Arizona Composition Board Spring Conference. Tucson, February 27. High School paper

exchange.

1987 AZ-TESOL Fifth Annual South-Central ESL Mini-Conference. Tucson, October 10. “Moffett Exercises in

the ESL Reading/Writing Class.”

1987 Erika Lindemann's Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1986. New York: Longman,

1988. Contributor.

1983 Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium. Brigham Young University, April 7-8. “Definitions and

Functions of OF in LDS Scripture.”

Other publications:

“Rebekah.” ENSIGN (January 2001).

“Melodious Sonnet.” Latter-Day Digest (October 1993): 66. Poem reprinted from Inscape 1983.

Other presentations, etc.:

2017 “Joys of Being a BYU Linguist.” Guest Speaker for Nancy Turley’s class, LING 198 “Academic

Preparation for Linguistics and English Language Majors. Department of Linguistics, Brigham Young

University, Provo, Utah. 29 November.

2017 “Why Linguistics is Part of the Humanities.” College of Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo,

Utah. With Jennifer Bown, Troy Cox, and Scott Alvord. 14 September.

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2014 “Emily Dickinson and Eliza R. Snow.” Five panel exhibit for the Education in Zion Gallery alcove.

Content provider, proof-reader, and project advisor for 18 student contributors and researchers from the

LING 495 and ELANG 495 senior seminar; prepared fall 2014; installed January 2015.

2008 Film session for segment in the “Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God” series. Neal A. Maxwell Institute and

BYU Religious Studies, Provo, Utah, December.

2007 “Poetry: A House of Possibilities.” LDS Storymakers 4th Annual Writers Conference. Provo Library.

Provo, Utah, March 24.

2003 “Habits of the Mind: Suggestions for Going to the Mountain.” New Student Orientation, Undergraduate

Education, Brigham Young University, August 29.

2003 “Abstract, Presentation, Publication.” Writing Across the Curriculum lecture, General and Honors

Education, Brigham Young University, March 12.

2003 “Medea v. Antigone.” The Impact of Thirty Years of Roe v. Wade on American Life and Law. Symposium

at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, January 22.

2003 “`Croft of Light’: Swedish Given Names in Ljustorps Parish 1500-1800.” Colloquium of the Center for

Language Studies, Brigham Young University, January 16.

2001 “All You Need to Know about Grammar to Be a Linguist.” LDS Translation Department Seminar. Brigham

Young University. September.

2001 “Temple of Learning.” Freshman Orientation session. Brigham Young University. August.

2001 “Emily Dickinson's Rhetorical Figures.” Colloquium of the Center for Language Studies, Brigham Young

University, January 18.

2000 “Success through Service: A Rule for Any Role.” Conference on Women in Leadership, Brigham Young

University, March 4.

1998 BYU Women's Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 30-May 1. “Temple

Attendance: Renewing Our Strength,” May 1. By invitation.

1998 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April.

“Redeeming the Desolate Woman in 3 Nephi 22.”

1998 Linguistics Society speaker. “Rhetorical Figures in Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and Emily

Dickinson.”

1998 TESOL Society speaker. “Roles of Taboo in Language and Culture.”

1997 Regional Single Adult Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, June. “Tomorrow Shall Be

My Dancing Day.” By invitation.

1997 World Literature Week. Brigham Young University, College of Humanities. “The Worlds of Shakespeare.”

1995 Book of Mormon Noon Seminar. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 25. “Webster's 1828

Dictionary and the Book of Mormon.”

1995 World Literature Week. Brigham Young University, College of Humanities, March 3. “Emily Dickinson

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and Columbus: The Search for Land.”

1994 Book of Mormon Noon Seminar. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, November 23. “3 Nephi 22:

The Lord's Covenant of Kindness.”

1994 BYU Women's Conference. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 28-29. “Emily Dickinson's

Scriptures: The Dictionary and the Bible,” April 28. By invitation.

1993 English Department Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 10. “Philology,

Eratology, and Charitology: Three Languages of Love for English Studies.”

1993 Book of Mormon Noon Seminar. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, January 27. “Faith, Hope, and

Charity: The Indo-European Roots of Book of Mormon Words.” By invitation.

1992 English Department Symposium. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, March 28. “Brave Columbus,

Brave Columba: Emily Dickinson's Search for Land.”

1982 Rocky Mountain Writer's Convention. Brigham Young University, Provo, July 27-29. Presented poems.

PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE

International

2014 Dutch to English collaborative translation of “Avondster” (Evening star) by Jacqueline van der Waals

(1866-1922), a Dutch contemporary of Emily Dickinson; invited by Dutch translator Geert Otto Nijland

with Ans Bouter.

2013 Emily Dickinson language consultation. Skype session with Swedish folk-singer Sofie Livebrant. July 29.

2013 Emily Dickinson language consultations. Stockholm, Sweden. Meetings with translator Ann-Marie Vinde

of Stockholm University and folk-singer Sofie Livebrant, May 20-24.

2007 Report on “Dickinson and Haiku” for the Plenary Session B of the EDIS conference in Kyoto, Japan. on

Friday, August 3rd, 2007, 4:15-5:15 p.m., by Katsuhiko Inada, Vice President, Hijiyama University, Japan.

2002 Team Leader: Bag and Program Distribution. TESOL international convention, April 8-13.

1996 Emily Dickinson International Society. Amherst, MA, June 24. Emily Dickinson Lexicon board meeting to

coordinate research activities with scholar contributors.

National

2014 Board member for The Digital Dickinson Manuscript Project (DDMP), a long-term project planning to text

encode all of Dickinson’s poem and letter manuscripts; invited by Kate Dunning of Case Western

University.

2014 High-level article review for Edward Finegan, editor of the Dictionaries journal for the Dictionary Society

of North America.

2014 Book blurb for Peter Meltzer’s book on unusual synonyms, The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated

Alternatives to Common Words.

https://books.google.com/books?id=hIXqDECRL4QC&pg=PT1178&lpg=PT1178&dq=Cynthia+Hallen&s

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ource=bl&ots=LJLyuFGpja&sig=UcbyZTwcdaweqKZO4YPu78Gp9-

o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwi9CWzazKAhUHxmMKHSB2DXQ4KBDoAQgbMAA#v=onepage&q

=Cynthia%20Hallen&f=false

2008 Session Moderator. Conference on the Savior’s Three-day Ministry Among the Nephites. Neal A. Maxwell

Institute for Religious Scholarship. Brigham Young University. Provo, Utah. September 19-20, 2008.

2008 Session Moderator: Stylistics 2. Aspen Grove, Utah. American Association for Corpus Linguistics

conference, March 14.

1997 National Council of Teachers of English. Detroit, Michigan, November. Language and Learning Across the

Curriculum Committee Meeting.

1996 National Council of Teachers of English. Chicago, Illinois, November. Language and Learning Across the

Curriculum Committee Meeting.

1995 National Council of Teachers of English. San Diego, California, November 17-18. 1) Language and

Learning Across the Curriculum Committee Meeting; 2) Recorder/reactor for panel on “Revising Texts,

Revising Selves: Cultural Contexts and the Non-Traditional Student.”

1994 National Council of Teachers of English. Orlando, Florida, November 18-21. Language and Learning

Across the Curriculum Committee Meeting.

1994 American Literature Association. San Diego, California, June 2-4. Hosted board meeting for the Emily

Dickinson Lexicon project, June 3.

1993 National Council of Teachers of English. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 19-22. Language and

Learning Across the Curriculum Committee Meeting, November 19.

1992 National Council of Teachers of English Convention. Louisville, Kentucky, November 19-21. Language

and Learning Across the Curriculum Committee Meeting.

1992 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 19-21. Session Chair

for “Composing Lives: Women Writing in the Academy,” March 19. Poetry reading for “Exultation of

Larks” program, March 20.

1990 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, March 22-24. Session Chair, March 22.

Poetry reading for “Exultation of Larks” program, March 23.

1989 Erika Lindemann's Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1988. New York: Longman,

1990. Contributor.

1987 Erika Lindemann's Longman Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric: 1986. New York: Longman,

1988. Contributor.

Regional

2007-10 College Representative, Phi Kappa Phi.

2004-present Pre-Medical Committee, Brigham Young University.

2003-4 New American Collection Installation faculty input committee; “Nature and Nation” advisor.

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2002-3 Service Learning University Sub-Committee member and Linguistics Department liaison.

1995ff Certified Emergency Response Team Member (CERT).

1998-02 Member of BYU Studies Academy: 1999, 2000, 2001 annual meeting participant.

1998 Judge, Alpine School District Spelling Bee. Orem, Utah, February 22.

1997 Utah Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society, February and August meetings.

1996 Utah Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society, February and August meetings.

1996 Judge, Alpine School District Spelling Bee. Orem, Utah, February 22.

1995 Utah Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Utah Valley State College, Orem,

Utah, August 16. “Emily Dickinson and Europe.” Slide presentation and report on EDIS

Innsbruck conference of August 4-6.

1995 Conflict Resolution seminar; Human Resource Development; Brigham Young University, July.

1995 Disaster Preparedness seminar; campus CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) member;

Brigham Young University, winter semester.

1995 Judge, Alpine School District Spelling Bee. Lehi, Utah, February 22.

1995 Utah Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Westminster College, Salt Lake City,

Utah, February 1. Organized and conducted meeting as President.

1994 Utah Chapter of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Provo, Utah, August 1. Organized

charter meeting and was elected as its first President.

1994 Judge, Alpine School District Spelling Bee. Orem, Utah, March 2.

1993 Discussion leader for General and Honors Education Freshman Orientation, An Evening with

Faculty, Brigham Young University, August 26.

1993 Judge, Alpine School District Spelling Bee. Orem, Utah, March 9.

1992 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, October 15-

17. Session Co-chair for “Spiritual, Canonical, and Ecological Landscapes,” October 17.

1992 Linguistics Society Meeting. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 8.

“Employment Opportunities in Linguistics,” speaker.

1992 Computer Classroom Advisory Committee, BYU English Department.

1992-93 Faculty Development Committee. BYU English Department.

1991-92 Student Development Committee, BYU English Department.

1990-91 Task Force for Graduate Degree Check, University of Arizona.

1988-89 Curriculum Committee for English 102 (Freshman Composition, Writing about Literature).

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University of Arizona, Tucson.

1988 University of Arizona Composition Board Spring Conference. Tucson, February 27. High School

paper exchange.

1987-8 Final Exam Committee for English 101 and 102 (Expository Writing and Writing about

Literature). University of Arizona, Tucson.

1987-90 University of Arizona Board of Publications, Chair. Annual editor selection for Arizona Daily

Wildcat and yearbook. Board member selection. Search committee for new Director of

Publications.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA)

Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA)

Linguistics Society of North America (LSA)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2013 Digital Tools Workshop. Mark Algee-Hewitt, Stanford Literary Lab. BYU Digital Humanities. November.

2012 Writing Seminar. Beth Hedengren and Delys Snyder. BYU College of Humanities. August.

2007 Blackboard training; Endnote training.

2006 Faculty Center “Publish and Flourish” group member.

2005 Faculty Center “Publish and Flourish” group member.

2005 Faculty Center Seminar, January 25th. Dr. Paul Woodruff, “Reverence and Respect in the Classroom.”

2003 Excel Spreadsheet, Dreamweaver QuickStart, PhotoShop; (4 classes). Information and Technology (IT).

Also attended 2-3 help sessions at the Instructional Media Center in the Harold B. Lee Library for photo-

shop and jpg file training.

Citations:

Koloze, Jeff. “Poetry on the Right-to-Life Issues of Abortion, Infanticide, and Euthanasia: Commentary from

Scansion of the Poems.” University Faculty for Life website article, 2004

https://learningsuite.byu.edu/plugins/Upload/fileDownload.php?fileId=M1eXABtycReh&discussionId=RvjL2NK3x

65d&comment=1&downloadSource=discussions&download=true&preview=true&subsessionID=7-6-

“Theresa Jarnagin Enos, In Memoriam.” My epigraph for the late Dr. Theresa Enos was included in Rhetoric

Review, 36:2 (2017) 111-112: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07350198.2017.1281688

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Cited in “Emily Dickinson, SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM—, and Cashmere: Attempting Connection Through

Nature” by Brianne Jaquette. The Explicator 74:4 (16 Nov 2016) 240-243. Published online:

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KRIMbnKhYH9nSz6zqxCh/full

Dickinson scholar Martha Nell Smith acknowledges me as curator for the Emily Dickinson Lexicon and a partner in

Harvard’s online Dickinson archives on p. 137 in Mark Richardson’s book The Cambridge Companion to American

Poets, published by Cambridge University Press, 2015.

The Emily Dickinson Lexicon is cited as a primary source in Helen Vendler’s 2010 book Dickinson: Selected Poems

and Commentaries, Harvard University Press, 527, 529 “The Emily Dickinson Lexicon has been an indispensable

resource.”

Dickinson scholar Jeb Deppman acknowledges me as one of the colleagues that he has communicated with for his

2008 book Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, p. x.

https://books.google.com/books?id=j2s2FGsWz0kC&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=Cynthia+Hallen&source=bl&ots=c

iI27S_WjX&sig=QCie3dG5gW7KqOM0FQWb4F_20sg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk3aft0azKAhUB12MKH

Y1CBLg4PBDoAQgzMAQ#v=onepage&q=Cynthia%20Hallen&f=false

Dickinson scholar Eleanor Hegginbotham cites my research in her book Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson:

Dwelling in Possibilities, Ohio State University, 2003, p. 157.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tL8-

DmvPi4YC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=Cynthia+Hallen&source=bl&ots=QyUeHJ0XO2&sig=yDaYBkxshZkxp

BD3RNnITGOz5Vg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-v6L-

z6zKAhVU5GMKHatVD1I4MhDoAQhUMAk#v=onepage&q=Cynthia%20Hallen&f=false

As an example of female LDS scholars of faith, an editor selected a passage from the essay that I wrote for Mormon

Scholars Testify website that Dan Peterson created: http://www.morumon.org/gospelsharingoldchineseman.htm.

Article in the website of the Dictionary Society of North America. “DSNA Dictionaries Online: The Emily

Dickinson Lexicon.” (Mar 2, 2011) by Lisa Berglund. http://www.dictionarysociety.com/

Note on “1844 Addenda to Noah Webster’s 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL).”

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 30 (2010), 118-119.

Orin Hargraves. “The Poet and the Dictionary.” Language Lounge: A Monthly Column for Word Lovers. 1 Feb

2008. http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/ll/1307/

“Emily Dickinson Lexicon Website Available Online.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 19:2

(Nov/Dec 2007) p. 26.

“Competitive Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: Funded by the Utah Humanities Council” Nov 2007.

http://www.utahhumanities.org/PreviousAwards.htm

Julie Roberts. 19th Century Dialects of Western Massachusetts. 6 Sep 2007. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-

2600.html

Cynthia’s onomastic work cited in the 2006 Ehrensperger Report of the American Name Society (ANS):

http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/Ehrensperger%202006%20HTML.htm

Some students name Cynthia as one of the best at BYU, in Choosing the Right College, Intercollegiate Studies

Institute (ISI Guide), 2004, p. 102.

ORCA recipient Malina Nielsen presented a paper co-authored with Cynthia at the Dictionary Society of North

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America conference in Boston, May 2005. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/DSNANspring05.pdf

Cynthia represented the Dictionary Society of North America in the inauguration of President Young at the

University of Utah, April 15, 2005. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/DSNANspring05.pdf

Cited in the 2001 doctoral dissertation of D. Antonio Fernández Ferrer, University of Granada, Spain.

“Aproximación a la poesía de Emily Dickinson: Aplicaciones didácticas. Traducción y musicalización de una

selección de poemas mínimos de 1862.”

Author of LDS literature at http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=973

“Cynthia Hallen provides a useful survey of the poet’s wide-ranging stylistic techniques...” Whitman and Dickinson

4. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, p. 88. http://als.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/2001/1/67.pdf

Cited for rhetorical figures lexicon in LING 230 on-line syllabus in Association for Mormon Letters list review

website. www.aml-online.org/reviews/b/B199927

Article cited and published in NCTE Notes Plus website.

www.ncte.org/notesplus/subscribers_only/ideas_classroom.

Cited for email comments on Collaborative Learning. www.iath.virginia.edu/fdw/volume1/gruesz

EDJ article cited in the online syllabus of Kirsten Silva Gruesz. www.iath.virginia.edu/fdw/volume1/gruesz

Cited online in the Emily Dickinson International Society registry of scholars.

www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/scholars/scholars

Cited online as contributor to the CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. 1986. New York: Longman,

1988. www.ibiblio.org/twtaylor/1986

Cited in Syllabus of Jonathan Morse, “English 660D, Major Authors: Emily Dickinson.” University of Hawaii,

2002.

Cited in Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 13:2 (2001) 4.

Cited in Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 13:1 (2001) 16.

Cited in Salon for pro-life hymn: http://www.salon.com/2001/02/23/patterson_4/.

Cited in article by Richard S. Ellis, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Volume 8, Number 1, pages 36-58 (1999), also on

his website www.math.umass.edu/~rsellis/ed-jacob

Cited in Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) Newsletter. 23:1 (Spring 1999) 2.

Cited in Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 11:2 (1999) 17-18.

Cited in Gates, Edward. “A Survey of the Teaching of Lexicography: 1979-1995.” Dictionaries: Journal of the

Dictionary Society of North America. 18 (1997) 80, 91.

Cited in “Notes on Research Projects.” Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. (May/June 1997) 20.

Article cited by Jean Carwile Masteller, Professor of English at Whitman College, in the “Noah Webster” entry for

the Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 1998.

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Presentation reviewed by Margaret Freeman in “Dickinson and the ‘Foreign’” session of the EDIS Austria

conference. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 1995), 14.

Presentation mentioned by Margaret Freeman in “Cognitive Approaches to Poetry and Translation” seminar of the

EDIS Austria conference. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 1995), 21.

Mentioned by Eleanor Heginbotham in “Editing Dickinson,” a report from the Innsbruck EDIS conference plenary

session. Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 1995), 5.

Footnote and work cited in Benjamin Lease, “`This World is not Conclusion': Dickinson, Amherst, and the `local

conditions of the soul'.” Emily Dickinson Journal 3:2 (1994) 53-54.

Article on “Lexical Connections” by Georgiana Strickland covering the Emily Dickinson Lexicon project in the

Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 1994) 15.

Articles and dissertation cited in the Modern Language Association on-line bibliography.

Footnote by Madison Sowell in “Tu spiegherai, Colombo . . .” Literature and Belief (1992) 94.

Contributions to on-line computerized resources:

Contributor to discussion list for cognitive linguistics, translation, and poetics, 1999-2000.

Contributor to BYU Studies “Academy Email Discussion List.”

“http://lal.cs.byu.edu.lalac/”: Language and Learning Across the Curriculum home page. Content advisor for Paul

Black. Winter 1996-1998.

“EMWEB@lal.cs.byu.edu”: research discussion list for the Emily Dickinson Lexicon and the International

Bibliography project of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Created with the help of Paul Black.

Winter 1995-1999.

“http://lal.cs.byu.edu/people/black/dickinson.html”: Emily Dickinson home page. Content advisor for creator Paul

Black. Winter 1995.

REFERENCES

Professor Domhnall Mitchell

English Section / Seksjon for engelsk

Department of Modern Languages / Institutt for Moderne Fremmedspråk Norwegian University of Science and

Technology / NTNU

N-7491 Trondheim, Norway / Norge

tel. Int. + 47 73 59 67 89 (work / jobb) fax: Int. + 47 73 59 65 12

domhnall.mitchell@hf.ntnu.no

Orin Hargraves

5130 Band Hall Hill Road

Westminster, MD 21158 okh@hughes.net

Dr. Dallin D. Oaks

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Department of Linguistics and English Language

4064 JFSB, Brigham Young University

Provo, Utah dallin_oaks@byu.edu

(801) 422-6369